…and the house he shares with his people.

The Master Bedroom

This room is admittedly one of our least interesting before/afters. We took a blue room, painted it green, and moved our (and Guinness’) furniture in. Voila.

Gratifying Green

The paint color is Sherwin-Williams’ Gratifying Green (SW6435), mixed in Behr interior flat latex paint. We also painted the ceiling, ceiling white – it had been kind of a cream/tan (which we suspect may have just been primer, circa 1986). The last picture, with the mirror in it, is probably the best photo of how it looks on the wall. It was a lot brighter (and minty-er?) than I had anticipated. I don’t dislike it… but if I had to pick a color that we’ve used that I’m not entirely enamored with, this might be it. After it dried, we evaluated it and decided that we should revisit some of the blue and green shades we’d chosen for the rest of the house. Most of what we’ve chosen since has been a little more neutral.

Speaking of revisiting colors, the Sherwin-Williams store in Schenectady gave me a complimentary fan deck when I was in buying all the cream colored paint for the halls/kitchen/foyer/stair case. It has made picking (and re-picking) paint colors immensely easier.

Master Bedroom plans for the future:

– we’re planning to replace the carpet throughout the house, with a tan burber. Guinness helped pick it out:

At any rate, the bedroom will be one of the rooms that really benefits from that change.

– Painted trim: we think we’re going to paint the trim throughout white.

– Replacement closet doors, and probably bedroom doors. I’d like to do bi-fold closet doors (instead of the current sliders), so we can both get into our sides of the closet at the same time.

– Wall hangings? The walls are awfully bare, but I haven’t come across anything inspiring just yet.

There are also some furniture purchases in our future (a second night stand… a dresser to replace the art deco armoire…) but for now, we’ve had a pretty comfortable stay!